It’s GPT-4 to tell the truth.

Not sure it’ll do the tasks you list at the start but it’s the front runner.

No, you’d be bad. What are you not getting?

Nice try copper.

I mean, if the bias was based on skin-colour or sex, would you feel differently about it?

No, because it’s circular logic.

It is, and that’s inherent in the problem under consideration, the problem of the ‘uncaused caused’ or the ‘first mover’. Logic can either be A) circular or B) not-circular. Any not-circular logic must explain each element by referring to a prior, but then you’ve got an infinite regress. So you’re trapped in a dilemma: do you want the circular logic or the infinite regress? Liebniz’s choice was to say that God was inherently existent, like when Lao Tzu said 道法 自然

There’s no reason for a necessary being to exist before it does

Correct. It is necessary: it is self-causing. It does not stand upon a ‘reason’, unlike everything else in conditioned existence.

to exist before it does

You’re assuming it is subject to the laws of linear time and causation, and point out how that assumption leads to a contradiction. But Liebniz’s God is not subject to the laws of linear time and causation. Which is the whole point of positing it: because if it were subject to those laws: infinite regress.

and no evidence that one does in the real world.

Well the world exists, so all this existence must have some cause. That was the starting point of the conversation: Why is there something instead of nothing?

I was complaining about this on [email protected]

About 10% of pop culture stories, maybe more, are about billionaires. Are 10% of people billionaires?

And even in a medieval fantasy settings, it’s about gold-decked kings: the billionaires of the setting.

It’s to perpetuate a class bias.

Well Liebniz said it’s because of a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself, if that helps.

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Why is there something instead of nothing

Cool story

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There is is #666

stackexchange will probably give you a better answer than lemmy (that’s me trying to be helpful with good advice)

cringe

https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/waze-israel-bds

Maybe some horrible massacre happened there once, but that’s like the heart of 1948 Israel, not some illegal settlement in the West Bank.

So people reading this are aware: the boycott movement is not just about boycotting goods from the occupied territories: it’s about the whole of Israel.

https://craft.co/waze/locations - it’s headquartered in Tel Aviv. Boycott it.

“The modern economy is very global and interconnected” is a cliché - too vague and obvious to guide action. Boycott Israeli companies. Waze is an Israeli company.

Marriage and sex decline when societies adopt smartphones and the digital craze.

In the end, I believe the question is who is more powerful, a few people with a lot of money, or a lot of people with little money?

Coördination is easier for the former.

Personally, I am excited about the field of Social Computing, it is still at its infancy and has a lot of potential. The main idea is to create alogirthms based on human interactions that solve real world problems. A few questions one may ask include: How misinformation is being spread, and what is the optimal way to fight it? How do we fight corruption and authoriative power? These questions have been approached by a lot of fields, but creating algorithms and proving their effectiveness requires a deep understanding of computer science.

I’m not a pessimistic person (I’m neutral), but the sinister implications are obvious.

Boycott Waze, Wix, HP, Unilever (and their many subsidiaries), Cif, Coca-Cola, Colman’s, Danone, Dell, Domino’s, Elle, McDonald’s, Monster Energy drinks, Nescafé/Nestlé, Paypal, Pret-a-Manger, Reebok, Starbuck’s, Sun (the laundry detergent)